Feature request: asign starting number for file renaming template

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Situation:

  • Two collections of images in two separate folders (A and B)

  • Present situation: images in folder A have the same name as folder B, yet are different, something like: IMG_1.jpg … IMG_14.jpg

  • Ideal solution: Rename all images of folder B starting the first next number from folder A

  • I presume offering the user the option to manually provided a starting number other than the default (which is 1, 01, or 001) would be the best solution.

For context, I use a default Fedora 40 installation, and I presume this option is part of Nautilus, but I could be mistaken.

Today I was positively surprised I could rename multiple files at once.
Yet, I couldn’t resolve my initial issue (in a time effective manner) because I couldn’t manually set a certain number, as shown above. It would be great if this option would become available in the future.

Let me know what you think.

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Hi. Thanks for the good example case.

This is would be useful to have!

The real challenge is redesigning of the batch rename dialog in such a way that we can support this while still being easy to use and not overwhelming.

(Search for “batch rename tool” in your favorite images search engine on the web and you’ll see many great examples of overwhelming and hard to use UI.)